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...characters are galley slaves,” Vladimir Nabokov told the Paris Review in 1967—and he was telling the truth. It isn’t difficult to imagine any one of his memorable protagonists as helpless prisoners, each chained to his oar on Nabokov’s ship—Pnin to indifference (against which he cracks), Kimbote to delusion (to which he succumbs), Humbert to lust (which drives him to kidnap and murder). The more forward motion these characters seemed to make, the clearer it became to the reader that they were stuck in the same...
...Those largely open-ended questions elicited responses that varied widely in format—even from similar institutions—making it difficult for the finance committee to draw “intelligent conclusions,” Gerber said...
...French culinary techniques—Escoffier’s tricks for making stocks, the proper way to deglaze a pan—and saving endangered produce and small businesses from extinction. Since none of this year’s proposals has been revealed to the public yet, it is difficult to know the French’s exact intentions amidst all this arrogant rhetoric...
...committee would be prudent in their decision making. “I would think the committee would not rush any recommendations through [due to] the sheer fact that he’s leaving in February,” Grassi said. “It’s very difficult to pass something for someone else to implement.” —Staff writer Michelle L. Quach can be reached at mquach@fas.harvard.edu...
...Harvard, honing both his visual sensitivity as a member of The Harvard Crimson photography staff and—as Robinson speculates—his appreciation for drugs as a possible test subject in Dr. Timothy Leary’s psychedelic drug experiments. However, the issue of sexuality made it difficult for him to enjoy his Harvard experience.“Danny was in his first or second year, really struggling and having a hard time being gay at Harvard,” Robinson says. As a result, he left school and decided to pursue a career in film.Williams moved...